tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2386323005205880864.post4091102277731839385..comments2024-03-05T06:16:16.288-08:00Comments on Talking Weeds: The Hidden Tragedy of the Newtown MassacreMarc David Bonagurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11170585643130579763noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2386323005205880864.post-44487455243715706382013-01-10T17:30:59.358-08:002013-01-10T17:30:59.358-08:00You make some very important points in the article...You make some very important points in the article. There is no doubt that gun control or mental evaluations for the purchase of guns will eliminate the horrific actions we are seeing in these school murders. Medications for mental health as well as physical problems are over prescribed by physicians and misused by patients. But if we are to be effective in ferreting out the cause of such behavior and attempting to remedy what society has created in these killers, we must discuss the issues in a very serious and rational way. There are medications that should not be given to some people, but in the same light, there are those that can bring the life back into others. Physical abnormalities in the natural chemical production of the human brain can cause that chemical production to be off balance. In such cases, temporary use of medications can and do help the body's production of the natural form found in our brains thus returning someone back to their before trauma state allowing them to stop the medications and maintain good mental health. <br /><br />The foods we eat, the lack of proper supervision for our children, violence in the media, and socio-economic conditions all play just as important roles in the mental health of the nation and the world. Just like one cannot treat a wound that keeps getting reopened, one cannot treat one or two symptoms if the others are still in force. <br /><br />What I have seen in the shooters has been a terrible loneliness, a feeling of being outcast, different, ignored, and alienated. I've seen it from their parents, from their peers, teachers, and other sources that should be nurturing and protective of them. Divorce, both parents working to make that almighty dollar when they should be home loving their children, video and internet interaction instead of physical real contact with others makes the real world seem virtual to some. They think you get up after you are killed to play again, though not consciously they start to believe they are invincible or that the attention they need can be derived from such noticeable behaviors as we've seen in these shootings. <br /><br />It will be the parents, the police, teachers, and other leaders who must make changes in how they see and interact with youth. Teaching civic responsibility because everyone must be responsible for themselves AND others around them to make a difference in these children who grow into murderers. They use to be able to look up to such people, to strive to be just like Dad or the cop that protects them from harm,now...Dad is gone, Mom works too, and the cops treat them like they are guilty until proven innocent. So they find themselves trying to be the most talked about mass murderer in history instead because that makes them important, valid, and unforgettable. <br />Leaders today, politicians, sports personalities, and successful business people are bigger criminals than the criminals, they cheat, lie, steal blatantly. <br /><br />Make the video games more violent to get the attention of the consumer or rather their children, the target. Any wonder they see violence as a way to achieve what they need? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07488233177333456184noreply@blogger.com